Demand lawmakers enact universal background checks

I have thought about this for a while and would like to let your readers know these sobering thoughts: Since John Lennon was shot and killed in 1980, more than 1 million Americans have lost their lives to firearms.

That is more Americans than died in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We've seen Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora and the latest tragedy in Newtown, yet we have done nothing to stop it.

It is time we stand up and at the very least urge our political leaders to vote to close the loopholes that have existed on universal background checks. Ninety percent of Americans support background checks, and most National Rifle Association members agree.

It won't exactly take a profile in courage for our leaders to support this piece of legislation, but somehow I am not sure they will.

We need to help them understand that if we even save one life, then we will have made a difference.

This should be our shared commitment to honor those who have died - that we did something positive, that we improved our community and made things just a little bit better.

David Rothman

Toms River

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Demand lawmakers enact universal background checks

I have thought about this for a while and would like to let your readers know these sobering thoughts: Since John Lennon was shot and killed in 1980, more than 1 million Americans have lost their

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